Jeanie Hannaman

By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing - ... we often admire those who have suffered much. We admire those who have overcome great adversity, seeing in their perseverance proof of some virtue or other. The suffering of others can move us to compassion, which is natural and good. There are even some forms of suffering that inspire not just compassion but a certain awe or reverence for the sufferer... Such people have endured or faced evils the rest of us tremble to contemplate and they grow in our estimation for it: a young widow, a patient facing a terminal diagnosis, a combat veteran.

By Jules Gomes, The Stream - Welby, a close friend and ecumenical partner of Pope Francis, announced his resignation Tuesday morning following a tidal wave of outrage led by senior Anglican clergy, parliamentarians, leading public figures, and Christians of all denominations... Welby was named and shamed in a devastating independent review of John Smyth, an attorney who physically abused more than 130 boys between the ages of 13 and 17, while leading the Iwerne summer camps for evangelical youth over four decades.